The Zoo and Tanaka Farms

Monday, June 28, 2010

We have passes to the local zoo and have visited a couple of times. While the zoo is known for their monkeys, there is also a little farm with farm animals. Logan loved petting the goats, but Charlotte was totally freaked out by them. She wanted to be held the whole time and told us, "no, no, no" if we got to close to the goats and sheep. We just got a couple of pictures ...

Making friends with a goat.

Charlotte stayed far away from the goats. She loves to sit in chairs, the bigger the better.

Last week we took a tour of Tanaka Farms, a local farm that grows organic produce. We got to take a tour of the farm in a wagon pulled by a tractor. We sampled "just picked" carrots, beans, sugar snap peas, tomatoes, and sweet corn. The best part was when we got to pick our own strawberries at the end of the tour. They were perhaps the best strawberries I have ever tasted! The best part was that everything was organic and we ate it right off the plant. Definitely go visit Tanaka Farms. They have watermelon tours starting this week.

Tasting beans.

Friends Jill, Abby and Whitney joined us on the tour.

Charlotte is a strawberry picker.

Logan tastes a juicy strawberry. (He was actually more interested in a carrot he gnawed on for most of the trip).

Charlotte ate a lot of berries. There were lots of stains on her shirt to prove it.

Logan picks a berry.